Product Details

• Actors: Tera Anderson, Dana Cullivan, Bob Currier, Dolores Currier, Randy Grinter
• Directors: Steve Hawkes
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: September 24, 2002
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006FMBM
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #85,004 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Blood Freak" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
The world's only turkey-monster/anti-drug/pro-Jesus/gore film! Musclebound Herschel (former Tarzan Steve Hawkes) falls under the spell of bad girl Ann when she offers him some weed. Now a writhing, spastic addict, the big galoot works at a turkey farm where he's fed meat treated with an experimental drug and naturally turns into a man with a giant turkey head. Who also gobbles. Still hungry for a fix, Herschel-the-Turkey-Man attacks fellow drug addicts whose blood he drinks with his pointy little turkey beak. He even buzzsaws the leg off a pusher who holds his stump and howls for what seems like days. Punctuated by philosophical pondering by co-director Brad Grinter (Flesh Feast), this is a monster movie unlike any other, a jaw-dropping milestone in crackpot filmmaking, and the ultimate cinematic turkey. Gobble-gobble!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Caution: Extremely Fowl Movie!, January 31, 2004

By	Robert I. Hedges - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This movie is absolutely sublime. If you appreciate truly terrible cinema, you MUST order this turkey now! Right now! This movie has it all! Terrible plot, awful dialogue, wooden acting (I am convinced some of the actors are actually made of wood), and THE most ridiculous monster in movie history, period. The plot revolves around Herschell, an ex Vietnam vet biker who gets involved with some pretty unsavory situations in the diabolical and powerful poultry industry, but thanks to the Grintner treatment, we never quite understand what is going on, and confusion reigns.

As bad as this sounds there is so much more that combines on so many levels to make this one of the very worst of the worst. This is worse than anything by Ed Wood or Al Adamson. My favorite diversions in the movie are twofold. First, director Brad Grintner (you see a lot more of him in the DVD extras) narrates this whole mess with a pro-religion, anti-drug, anti-giant mutant murdering turkey monologue, which I could make neither heads nor tails of. In the manner of William 'One Shot' Beaudine and Ray Dennis Steckler, he clearly did the narrative all in the first take, so you get a bonus of Grintner lighting cigarettes, smoking, and having horrible hacking coughing fits on camera. The second delicious diversion in the film is the scene right after Herschell becomes the turkey monster when he reunites with his girlfriend. I won't spoil it for you, but it's certainly a scene that you will never forget. I won't say more on the subject other than that I guarantee that you will love this film.

Also of note are all the extras, including a documentary on poultry farming, and other short subjects, two of which must be singled out for special mentions: "Brad Grintner: Nudist" is a short featuring Grintner and pals frolicking in the buff (note: this will NOT arouse you in any way); and, "Narcotics, Pit of Despair!" starring Kevin Tighe, future star (as Roy DeSoto) of TV's hit show "Emergency!" from the late seventies. Here he plays John Scott, a good looking high school student hooked on all sorts of bad stuff. Of course drug addiction is a terrible thing, and not to be mocked, but you are allowed a few smirks in this heavy-handed anti-drug film.

Just say no to drugs, but say yes to this movie. It is an inspired work of utter brilliance; in its own fowl way.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate Thanksgiving Horror Film, August 5, 2002

By	"slacker616" (Springfield, Il USA) - See all my reviews

Get ready to watch one of the strangest gore movies ever made. Our hero,"Herschell", is an Elvis look-alike on a chopper who smokes superweed with the druggie sister of a bible fanatic and turns into a psychopathic turkey...you read that correctly...a killer butterball that has taken a special turkey serum from shady scientists.
The entire film is a load of laughs, and if you're looking for a so called "cult movie", you've found one on my top ten. Here's a drive-in cheese-pleaser will leave you needing one more helping of this undiscovered holiday classic.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blood Freak finally released in all its Glory!, February 1, 2003

By	Adam J. Trembczynski (Merrillville, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've seen a lot of bad movies in my day, but frame for frame, nothing measures up to Blood Freak. The plot involves a Vietnam vet who assists a girl with car trouble, meets her evil skank of a sister, gets hooked on drugs, works for the girls' father, eats a drugged turkey, and becomes a turkey headed monster craving junky blood! This movie is delightfully tacky and inept in every possible way. Also, look out for the best line ever uttered in a movie, "You're just a dumb bastard who doesn't know where it's at anyway!" Thankfully, Something Weird Video has lovingly released this title on DVD with tons of extras! The short films are so campy and ridiculous; they are worth the price of the DVD themselves. This is a must for any serious fan of camp, sleaze, and just plain awful movies.